Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor and writer and comedian Ricky Gervais and his favorite smart friend

philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris are back at it. Here's a clip from season two of the hit series

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Hey, how's it going? Good. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Although I was just anesthetized, which doesn't happen often and

That's an interesting experience was last time you were put out. I don't think I've ever had a general since I was about

Maybe 10 to have a tooth out. Hmm. This wasn't a general you got a general to have a tooth out

Well, we used to I mean in my when I hit in the late 60s, it was gas

Whenever you get one of these these urchins who are covered with cold dust

You just put it right out to take their teeth out. No, and I always wake up crying because I don't know what it was

I assumed it was some sort of what they've been not some sort of mix of nitrous oxide

Yeah, that's so that's not that wouldn't be a general, but that yeah, that would be

Oh, no, no dentists. No, I wasn't conscious. Yeah, no, you know, I guess so the distinction between a general and

What might be called a

Twilight anesthesia or you know, other than a general is that you know general in a general

You're not breathing under your own power anymore. Oh really? You're you're that deep, but and there may be more

There may be gradations that I then I'm not aware of I'm not an anesthesiologist, but the

Oh, so they really you can be completely unconscious, but you know, still it's not a general. It's a much lighter anesthesia

I've never had a general

But you've never had a proper one. No, I had no I had the the

Glorious intervention of a colonoscopy and so they give you they give you a proper fall, which is what Michael Jackson

Was using recreationally to sleep with his crazy doctor, which wound up killing him apparently

Is that why you went for it because celebrity endorsements you said whatever I want to do wear one glove as well. Yes

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